Speaker

Dr. Paul Achleitner

Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG

Born 1956 in Linz, Austria, Paul Achleitner was educated at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and Harvard Business School (HBS), holds a PhD from HSG and a professorship from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. After four years at Bain & Co. in Boston he joined Goldman Sachs in 1988 where he worked in New York, London and Frankfurt in various capacities, since 1994 as a partner of the firm. Between 2000 and 2012 Paul Achleitner was CFO of Allianz in Munich, from 2012 until 2022 he served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG. Paul Achleitner is a member of the Supervisory Board of Bayer as well as of the Shareholders’ Committee of Henkel. He currently serves as Chairman of the Global Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank and the Board of Trustees of the HSG Foundation (University of St. Gallen). Dr. Achleitner is a member of the Advisory Boards of Allianz, Bain & Company, Brookings Institution, Hakluyt & Co, Harvard Business School and the Munich Security Conference and he serves as Senior Advisor to HPS Investment Partners. Previously he was a non-executive director at Daimler, RWE and MAN.